student accommodation Articles

84% of student renters face accommodation issues
The National Union of Students 2024 housing and rent survey has highlighted issues faced by student renters

Agony Aunt Amelia: Hell’s Kitchen
Amelia tells you want to do if faced with messy, downright rancid flatmates

Dirty underwear, a broken boiler and £400 in cleaning fees: a laundry list of problems with Thornley Groves
From holes in the roof to melting oven trays, students tell us about their experience renting with Thornley Groves Fallowfield and how it’s impacted their wellbeing

350 or 44: How many students are engaging in the rent strike?
UoM Rent Strike predict up to 350 students are engaging in organised action, whilst the University ‘anecdotally’ advise only 44 student have contact with Credit Control

Ghosts of Fallowfield past: Why is the Owen’s Park Tower still standing?
The Mancunion has discovered there are currently no plans for Owens Park accommodation despite having stood empty since 2019

‘They tried to blame it on us’: Manchester student moved into Covid-positive accommodation
The University said it couldn’t comment on individual cases

Langdale Hall expansions opposed by local community
A proposal to build six ‘townhouses’ with 36 bedrooms for students in Victoria Park has been turned down by Manchester City Council after opposition from nearby residents